By Kathie Fiveash

Winner of the 2015 Maine Literary Award – John N. Cole Award for Maine – themed nonfiction. Island Naturalist was chosen by the Cole family for this award from 17 entries.

When this book was published, naturalist Kathie Fiveash lived on sparsely populated Isle au Haut, six miles off the Downeast Maine coast and wrote a column called “Island Naturalist” for Island Ad-Vantages, the local weekly newspaper. This book is a compilation of four years of published columns, 69 in all, with 37 beautiful color photographs by local photographers. Season by season, explore with her the flora and fauna of the rocky shores, spruce forests, bogs, meadows, clam flats, ponds, streams, marshes and ocean of coastal Maine. Along the way, learn about birds, squirrels, insects, squid, lobster and much more.

From an Amazon reviewer: “Island Naturalist … is full of the author’s wonder at the natural world that we share, and full of the wonders of that everyday natural world. … Much of what is described is also to be found here in the mainland Northeast, and probably elsewhere in the U.S.”

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